Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.133.2.1
Object Name
Poster
Title
long live socialism poster
People
Bettino Craxi
Date
1970
Description
This is part of a larger collection of fifty posters produced for the Italian socialist party from 1892 to 1970. This is a poster made of white card - there is an image on the front. The design shows three people; there is a man with a grey coat and a moustache holding up a torch of fire, the person in the middle is a woman with a red dress holding up a white banner, in black text this says "viva la socialismo!", which translates to "long live socialism." The figure on the left is wearing a white shirt and is holding a hammer and a hat. The image looks like a print of an illustration or painting; the background is blue. The Italian Socialist Party (Italian: Partito Socialista Italiano, PSI) was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the longest-living parties of the country.Founded in Genoa in 1892, the PSI dominated the Italian left until after World War II, when it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party. The Socialists came to special prominence in the 1980s, when their leader Bettino Craxi, who had severed the residual ties with the Soviet Union and re-branded the party as "liberal-socialist"served as Prime Minister (1983â1987). The PSI was disbanded in 1994 as a result of the Tangentopoli scandals.
